[Autopsy] Medical students autopsy photography collection [Three photographs]

1930. Near Fine. The practice of photographing cadavers by medical students occurred during a period when post-mortem photography was common for the public. However, the medical students' provided scientific and educational documentation: Photography was an innovative technology used to create visual records for study and teaching. This included documenting dissections, anatomical variations, and pathological specimens. In the most common format, students would pose formally around a dissection table, often with anatomy books and surgical instruments displayed. Sometimes, the students inscribed the cadaver's table with their medical school's name and class year. These three images illustrate male medical students in bowties and surgery wear posing with postmortem human bodies. Often controversial, yet extremely rare. No documentation or provenance information. One is a postcard, second an informal snapshot, and the third, a cardstock framed more formal image. Bright and unmarred. Three black and white photographs. One framed in cardstock, one loose, and one printed postcard.